This is the fantasy economics and speculation I wanted to avoid. You're contradicting yourself slightly.
Based off these reports, we supposedly earned £142m last season off league position and TV money alone.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/f...-a7748851.html
How is it that we're in 5th for prize money and tv money received last summer but 15th when it comes to net spend during the summer?
So how much are Liverpool and Everton spending on players? Did Everton blow all their Lukkau money on Sigurdsson? So it wasn't £45m they spent...it was closer to £75m- 85m? But then again, they're also paying Rooney's wages, Theo Walcott plus his wages...would that mean they've paid close to £60m for Theo? What about Keane, Pickford, Klaasenn and Tosun? Does the £20m - £25m they paid for each of those players really work out to be £40m - £50m a pop? That's working out to be over £300m spent in season by Everton!
When you apply these crazy economics to other teams besides Arsenal, you start to see how it doesn't add up. Just look at the net spend summer league table. Also, I don't think a club hands the player the full 4 years worth of their salary right up front. That makes no sense and why the calculations are all wrong in the first place.
You've made this very same stance when we signed Ozil. Speculating that we may have blown the entire budget on one player, had nothing left and could be in trouble. Next year we went on to sign Sanchez, Welbeck, Gabriel, Chambers, Ospina and the rest is history.
The club will have our heads spinning trying to debate this and work out what's going on whilst pocketing the money. Shit, maybe it's Wenger and his cronies swallowing up the money. We need factor that in when playing fantasy economics.